“Can’t just now. I’m busy.” She cut him off.
At the end of two hours Danny’s mother appeared with sandwiches and hot coffee. “Thought I’d find you here,” was her quiet comment. “So you’re the little shepherdess of the big ships.” Sally joined her in the laugh that followed. Never a word was said about Danny, nor would there be.
“Have you seen Nancy?” Sally asked.
“Oh yes. Don’t you worry about her. I fixed her up just fine.”
“And Riggs?”
“Yes, Riggs, too. He said to tell you he’d take over any time you sent for him.”
“I’m doing fine, I guess,” Sally smiled. “And I’m enjoying it no end.
“But what about Lieutenant Tobin?” Sally asked. “The second radioman.”
“Oh, he’s sick too but he said he’d drag himself around soon.”
Lieutenant Tobin lurched into the cabin a few moments later. Very unsteady on his feet but fighting to keep up his spirits, he said: